The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 2A. V. Blake, 1843 |
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... excellence is truth ; he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , ‡ who had means enough of in- formation , that ...
... excellence is truth ; he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley , we are told by Barnes , ‡ who had means enough of in- formation , that ...
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... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaf- fection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason ; it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaf- fection he exculpates ...
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... excellence no other poet has hither- learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , to afforded . To choose the best , among many and the critic , mingle their influence even in this good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of ...
... excellence no other poet has hither- learning behind it ; the moralist , the politician , to afforded . To choose the best , among many and the critic , mingle their influence even in this good , is one of the most hazardous attempts of ...
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... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
... excellence . Clarendon represents him as having taken a flight beyond all that went before him ; and Milton is said to have declared , that the three greatest English poets were Spen- ser , Shakspeare , and Cowley . His manner he had in ...
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... excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
... excellence of this kind is merely fortui- tous he sinks willingly down to his general carelessness , and avoids with very little care either meanness or asperity . His contractions are often rugged and harsh : One flings a mountain ...
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الصفحة 252 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
الصفحة 148 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
الصفحة 268 - His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast, and attends to the minute. The reader of the
الصفحة 259 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
الصفحة 268 - As a writer, he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind : his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cow-ley. His numbers, his pauses, his diction, are of his own growth, without transcription, without imitation. He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius : he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which nature bestows...
الصفحة 301 - These odes are marked by glittering accumulations of ungraceful ornaments, they strike rather than please; the images are magnified by affectation; the language is laboured into harshness. The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. "Double, double, toil and trouble.
الصفحة 172 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the ' Beggar's Opera.' He began on it ; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word...
الصفحة 234 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe. 'For,' says he, 'the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
الصفحة 8 - From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds...
الصفحة 8 - As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising, they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds : they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without...